After having apologised for his remarks questioning the celebration management, TMC MLA from Bharatpur, Humayun Kabir, has ruffled the senior leaders once more, asserting that he would contest from two constituencies — Beldanga and Reginagar — within the subsequent Meeting elections due in two years.
Talking in Murshidabad, his residence district, on Saturday after submitting his reply to the present trigger discover issued by the celebration, Kabir mentioned: “If I really feel the necessity, then I’ll contest from each Beldanga and Reginagar Meeting seats. I cannot stop politics.”
Kabir, who was elected from Rezinagar on a Congress ticket in 2011, joined TMC in 2013 after resigning as an MLA. He was defeated within the subsequent by-election from that seat and later was expelled from the TMC in 2015. He returned to the TMC earlier than the 2021 Meeting elections and acquired elected from Bharatpur.
Recognized for not toeing celebration line and making controversial remarks, Kabir just lately demanded that TMC nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee be made Deputy CM with the Residence Division portfolio, at the moment held by the chief minister. He additionally alleged that “a coterie throughout the celebration” was attempting to affect each choice taken by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
For the final one month, Kabir has criticised his district Murshidabad management for poor growth within the area. He additionally focused two senior leaders of the celebration – Firhad Hakim, Kolkata Mayor and state Cupboard minister, and Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee.
With the TMC management organising three disciplinary committees to curb dissension within the celebration, Kabir was despatched a present trigger discover. In his three-page reply to the discover submitted to the celebration on Friday, Kabir: “Our CM epitomises the spirit of ‘Maa-Mati-Manush’ and being an individual of the grassroots degree, I at all times keep rooted to the bottom. Perhaps I ought to have been extra cautious about my manner of expressing.”
In the meantime, TMC minister Shovandev Chattopadhyay requested what steps will likely be taken towards Kabir. “Our celebration’s disciplinary committee will undergo his present trigger reply and after that, the celebration will take a choice,” Chattopadhyay mentioned. A senior TMC chief mentioned: “It’s identified to the celebration that what Humayun Kabir mentioned many celebration leaders additionally share identical opinions. Additionally, he’s common in his constituency and is from a minority group. So, it is not going to be really easy to take stern motion towards him.”
